Treaty
or Trickery?

Far, far away,
there lived a tiger and a group of deer. One day, the tiger was
trapped in a hunter's cage. The stupid deer--instead of taking
advantage of the situation, they made a treaty with the tiger.
The tiger agreed to all conditions and promised to never hurt
the deer unless any of the deer caused harm to the tiger. They
wrote the agreement on leaves and both parties signed. It's
an actual event, and so far no historian has denied this fact.

Now
don't look at me suspiciously. If ants can talk (Q27:18),
if a palm tree can cry and if a dead man can talk after rubbing
the flesh of a 'YELLOW' colored cow (Q2:69,73), characters
of my story have every right to be read and written.

Several
months later, the peaceful tiger went to drink water from the
lake, where a healthy deer was grazing. The tiger stared at the
deer for a few minutes. Finally, keeping his ravenous eyes on
the deer, he shouted, "Why did you muddle the water that I
was going to drink?" It was a surprising question for the
deer. "I did not go to the water today," the deer answered
innocently. The tiger thought for a second, then presented an
Islamic logic, "Well, maybe it was not you but your grandfather
must have done it, which is a violation of our treaty. You are
trying to harm me because I cannot drink this muddy water now."
After making such a brilliant excuse, the tiger killed the deer
and enjoyed the feast.

Mohammed,
the cunning and shrewd warlord of the seventh century, made many
treaties when he was weak but conveniently broke them, just like
the tiger did, when the time was ripe. In most cases, straw man
Allah had to send Quranic verses to justify his spellbound deception
and hypocrisy.

The
Treaty of Hodaibya is a significant event in which Mohammed played
a tricky role to achieve his goal of conquering
Mecca and subdue
Quraish pagans. Interestingly, Muslim propagandists have successfully
changed the story to Mohammad's favor and blamed Quraish pagans
for breaking the treaty. Their continuous propaganda reminds one
of Hitler's strategy, who wrote, "And I soon realized
that the correct use of propaganda is a true art, which has remained
practically unknown to the bourgeois parties (Chapter VI, Mein
Kampf by Adolf Hitler).

Muslims
are under the impression that Quraish pagans are at fault and
they broke the treaty. So, Allah freed Muhammad from any obligation
that he might have with the Quraish. In reality, the Quraish did
not attack Muhammad after the Treaty of Hodaibya; hence, they
are not at fault. Muhammad created an excuse to attack
Mecca before the
time limit of 10 years.

Following
are the proof of Mohammed's mockery that happened from the
time of the Treaty of Hudaibya and the conquest of Mecca
(based on Sirat Rasul Allah, Ibn Ishaq, pp. 747-815):

In 6 A.H., Muhammad wished to take a week's vacation from
his busy schedule of robbing and visit Mecca
to perform a mini pilgrimage.

Kaba
was full of idols at that time, yet, why did Muhammad want to
take a pilgrimage to Mecca
? Was Allah one of the idols? Did Muhammad want to
suckle the nipples of idols? No offense to sensitive Muslims,
I am not hurting their feelings but merely using Abu-Bakr's
comment who cursed another person, (sic) "Now Abu Bakr was
sitting behind the apostle and he said, 'Suck al-Lat's
nipples!'"

It
was obvious that Mohammed had a vision to conquer
Mecca . Quraish pagans
realized his intention and they stopped him. Mohammed was weak
at this time and he knew that he would be defeated if he fought
inside of Mecca
because it is always hard to win on an enemy's
turf.

Quraish
pagans, being tolerant and afraid of shedding blood, proposed
a 10-year treaty with Mohammed, without realizing who they were
dealing with! Their shortsightedness can easily be compared with
today's politically correct intellectuals who suffer from
mental myopia. Mohammed accepted the proposal of the Quraish,
which was rather humiliating on his part but he signed the treaty
anyway.

1.
This is the treaty in which Muhammad, son of Abdullah, has made
a compromise with Sohail, son of 'Umar'

2.
There shall be no mutual war for ten years.

3.
During this period, every person belonging to the two parties
shall be safe and secure and none shall raise a sword against
the other.

4.
If any person from amongst the Quraish goes to Madina, he shall
be sent back, but if any Muslim goes to Mecca
, he shall not be sent back.

5.
The tribes of Arabia would be
free to enter into the treaty from the side of either of the two
parties.

6.
The Muslims shall return this time and come back next year, but
they shall not stay in Mecca
for more than three days.

7.
They shall not come back armed and shall bring with them swords
only, but these shall not be kept out of scabbards and the scabbards
kept in bags.

It
did not take long for Mohammed to show his real face. When a woman
migrated from Mecca to
Medina and took Mohammed's
shelter, her two brothers came and asked Mohammed to return their
sister in accordance with Article 4 of the treaty.

Mohammed,
the apostle of Islam, who happened to be the apostate of Quraish,
must have everything in his favor. Apostates of other faiths are
free to join Islam but apostasy is not an option in Islam. Mohammed
refused to return the lady and Allah delivered a special message
promptly. "O Prophet! When believing women come to thee to
take the oath of fealty to thee, -----then
do thou receive their fealty" (Q60:12).

Ibn
Kathir proudly explains, "Allah abolished the part of the
treaty between the Prophet and the idolaters about the women,
particularly. So He forbade returning Muslim women to the idolaters
and revealed the Ayah about testing them.''

Ibn
Ishaq mentioned about a letter written by Urwa b. al-Zubayr, who
had the principal authority on apostolic tradition. Isahq quoted
from this letter, "The apostle made peace with Quraish on
the day of al-Hudaybiya on condition that he should return to
them those who came without the permission of their guardians.
But when women migrated to the apostle and to Islam, God refused
to allow them to be returned to the polytheists--".

God
forbade it!

How
convenient! Mohammed clearly broke the treaty and cited Allah's
order in this regard. Allah was not a mediator of the treaty;
he did not sign the treaty, nor he is the god of the Quraish.
Why should the Quraish care if the verse in question is sent by
Allah or uttered by the she-camel of the prophet?

The
next year, 7 A.H., Muhammad was allowed to enter
Mecca . Any Muslim
would have hiccups if I said the truth but logically Mohammed
must have worshipped the idols of Kaba. What else could he have
done while visiting the sacred place of pagans? However, Islamic
scriptures are silent about which idol Mohammed did worship!

People
have different types of hobbies--some collect stamps, some collect
books, some collect antiques. The great prophet of Islam had an
unusual hobby--he loved collecting wives. Although he was on his
way to visit the so-called sacred holy place, he could not resist
marrying another woman.

After
the pilgrimage, he tried to stay in Mecca
more than three days, violating Article 6 of the Treaty
of Hodaibya and made an excuse of a wedding feast. Ibn Ishaq wrote,
"The apostle remained three days in Mecca
. Huwaytib b. Hisl with a few Quraysh came to him
on the third day because Quraysh had entrusted him with the duty
of sending the apostle of out of Mecca
. They said: 'Your time is up, so get out from us.'
The apostle answered, 'How would it harm you if you were to
let me stay and I gave a wedding feast among you and you came
too?' They replied, 'We don't need your food, so get
out"

The Quraish could have easily killed him and his companions. Instead,
they simply expelled him along with his companions. Probably they
were under the impression that Mohammed would never break the
treaty that was to last for 10 years and hurt his own people--a
false conviction that might have motivated them to spare Mohammed.
However, they had a little surprise at the end.

Upon
Mohammed's return to Medina
, another drama took place in Mecca
that would make Mohammed's day. Beside Muhammad
and the Quraish, there were two other tribes involved in this
story. They are B. Bakr and Khuza.

When a man of B. Bakr was in a trading journey and passing through
Khuza's area, Khuza's people killed him and took all of
his possessions. In response to this robbery, B. Bakr attacked
and killed the robber. Khuza embraced Islam and sought protection
from Muhammad, whereas B. Bakr joined the Quraish.

Khuza
was a robber who killed an innocent merchant for the sole purpose
of looting. How could a God's prophet give him shelter? If
Muhammad was a decent person, he should have kicked this guy out.
Instead, he accepted Khuza for two obvious reasons. First, Muhammad
was a robber, too, so it was a union of two criminals. As the
proverb goes, 'A man is known by the company he keeps'.
Second, Muhammad cleverly manipulated the conflict between Khuza
and Badr.

We
must note one important item here. The Quraish did not attack
Muhammad after the treaty and they fulfilled all obligations.
Even though Article 5 of the Treaty of Hodaibya says each party
can make a treaty with other tribes and Khuza joined Mohammed,
it does not open the door for Muhammad to attack the Quraish.

Muhammad
became more powerful with Khuza's support. In addition, those
Muslims who migrated to Abyssinia
returned and joined Muhammad's army.

After
realizing the conflict between Khuza and B. Bakr, and their support
to Muhammad and the Quraish, respectively, Abu Sufyan, the Quraish
chief, came to Medina
and pleaded for clearing up any misunderstanding that
may have surfaced. Muhammad refused to talk to him and deliberately
ignored him because he gained enough strength to defeat the Quraish.
Abu Sufyan begged Umar, Ali and Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad,
to make arrangements to talk to Muhammad. He even went to the
mosque, all in vain, and pleaded, (sic) "O men, I grant protection
between men." Muhammad did not meet Abu Sufyan.

Although
the Treaty of Hudaibya had a 10-year term, Allah dissolved the
treaty within two years. Shamelessly, Allah declared, "And
an announcement from Allah and His Messenger, to the people (assembled)
on the day of the Great Pilgrimage,- that Allah and His Messenger
dissolve (treaty) obligations with the Pagans (Q9:3).

When
Muhammad set his camp near Mecca
, one of his army corporals managed to contact Abu
Sufyan and he volunteered to meet Muhammad to avoid further bloodshed.
The last episode of the drama was played in Mohammed's tent.
Ibn Ishaq wrote, "He (Muhammad) said: 'Woe to you, Abu Sufyan,
isn't it time that you recognize that I am God's apostle?'
He answered, 'As to that I still have some doubt.' I said
(Abbas) to him, 'Submit and testify that there is no God but
Allah and that Muhammad is the apostle of God before you lose
your head,' so he did so."

The
moral of the story is: Be careful when Islam is in a hatching
mood. All sorts of immoral and unethical actions, including but
not limited to trickery, treachery, deception and killing, are
allowed in the course of spreading Islam.